New York Riesling Diary: Day 3 – My Book is Here, is Real!

This morning I was sitting in the office of Paul Colarusso, the marketing manager of Abrams Books just a couple of blocks from here in Downtown Manhattan, when he pulled up an email onto his computer screen and said to me with some real excitement in his voice, “Stuart, the advance copies of your book are here!” Just a couple of minutes later I was holding the book pictured above in my hand and the theoretical phase of this project had abruptly ended. No less suddenly, the practical task of making sure that as many people as possible find out that my book exists had begun. The day continued along those lines with Levi Dalton doing a long in-depth interview with me for his popular wine podcast ‘I’ll Drink to That!’ Life has changed dramatically and for a period of some months is going to be very different to the long haul of the research (February 2012 thru July 2013) and the intense burst of writing and corrections (August 2013 thru March 2014) that brought me to this point. I can’t wait to hear all your comments, but, sadly, you will have to be patient until the official publication date of Wednesday, June 17th (or slightly before if you’re really lucky). Many thanks to all of you who supported this project in so many ways! Anyone wanting to pre-order should click on the link below or contact their bookseller:

http://www.amazon.com/Best-White-Wine-Earth-Riesling/dp/1617691100/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394226046&sr=8-1&keywords=Best+white+wine+on+earth